March 2010
14 posts
The internet in 1969 →
What the wife selects on her console, will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console. Tags: video
David Mamet's guidelines for screenwriting →
In a memo to the writers of The Unit, David Mamet (the show’s executive producer) provides a short but master class in writing for television. THINK LIKE A FILMMAKER RATHER THAN A FUNCTIONARY,…
Wired article about young criminal mastermind →
(From left: Blanchard at age 8; with his then-wife and father-in-law in Vienna, 1998; Blanchard’s girlfriend enjoying his proceeds in 2006. Photos: Courtesy of Gerald Blanchard)
Joshuah…
Cloak Bag →
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If anyone wants to get me a present…
Please meet Cloak Bag, the world’s first shoot-through camera bag. Brilliant! Watch this video to see how the bag…
The Dense States of America →
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Let’s do it!
If the population density of the United States was equal to that of Brooklyn, the entire US population would fit into New Hampshire. The state would be ruined,…
Quantum mechanics just got REAL →
The opening paragraph of the article says it all: A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not…
Miniature NYC, a movie →
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I want every movie to be in tilt-shift.
Do yourself a favor: take the next five minutes and watch this tilt-shift video of NYC in fullscreen HD. The construction stuff that starts…
Dog Stache →
image by dog-milk.com
This is for you Tim: Dog Stache.
(thank you herrt)
"Fat" is now a taste →
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In addition to sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, Australian scientists have found evidence that humans can also taste fat.
“We found that the…
8-bit map of NYC →
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Yaaay
Fully draggable, zoomable, Zelda-like map of NYC…this is awesome. But where are the Octoroks? (via waxy) Tags: maps NYC
Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой →
Nothing I can say here will make this any better. (Thanks Jim and Steve!)
Mercedes-Benz Tornado →
While we’re still on the subject of artificial weather, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by UNStudio, can repurpose its internal ventilation system to form an artificial…
North Korea's woman traffic-cops and the robotic... →
Super Punch has rounded up a bunch of the best YouTube videos of Kim Jong Il’s “traffic girls,” who are dressed in snappy uniforms, which they wear as they perform an elaborate, robotic…